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Link type "Affected by Defect"

Hi Team, One end of the relationship link is "Affects Plan Item" which, for instance, is used starting with a risk affecting a plan item (feature/story/etc.). Looking from the linked affected plan item, the link shows "Affected by Defect" which is...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Decouple certain attributes from 'Filed Against'

We want to make changes so that moving a work item to new team area doesn’t result in permission error for anything outside of ‘filed against’. Currently, if a user tries to change the filed against on a work item, if a conflicting attribute (such...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Not under consideration

Auto Fill Child work item attributes

Auto fill different attributes to match the parent's same attribute. For example, any stories or tasks under an epic with "Applicable Program" filled out should automatically populate the "Applicable Program" attribute at story and task level. Thi...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration

Add Copy Paste Functionality to EWM

Currently in EWM, you have to click into a work item (story, epic, etc) to copy it, you then have to reload the page (when looking through a sprint planning or PI planning view) to see the copied item show up. After this you can move the copied it...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Code Review status dependency on Work Item status

Why is it useful? Effective EWM v7.x: Ø the Code Review Tool doesn’t leverage the work item’s lifecycle status or its approval mechanism like it did with the older RTC v6.x. Ø the Code Review Tool has its own in-built independent approval mechanis...
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

A particular work item query takes 15-30 seconds in EWM when a work item type has 100 custom attribute.

A particular work item query takes 15-30 seconds in EWM when a work item type has 100 custom attribute. The cause of slowness in work item query is the following 2ms( for attributes check) * 118 (attributes) * 50 row = 11800ms = 11.9 sec. Please t...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Not under consideration

In Eclipse client, change set should also be visible on the “Code Review” tab like it is on “Links” Tab.

In Eclipse client, change set should also be visible on the “Code Review” tab like it is on “Links” Tab making the code review logical. We realise that the change set information is available on the "Code Review" tab on Web client but it should al...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Not under consideration

In CCM number of requirements(count) of type implements requirements, attached to a work items is not visible we are currently counting manually.

It will be helpful to see the count of the links. 1. Helps in calculate the load on work item by knowing count of the links. 2. Reduces manual effort of counting 3. It can be integrated visa versa also means in DNG to count the number of work item...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Create a way to share a query without allowing the recipients to modify it.

Currently, in RTC, if you share a query with another user, that user has the ability to modify the query. There are certain instances where we don't want to allow this behavior. We would like the ability to share a query with a set of users, and a...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Configure what type of files can be attached to a workitem

For security reasons, the client's security office wants to be able to limit what type of files can be attached to a work item, such as blocking files with an exe extension and then being able to configure in advanced properties the extensions tha...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration